The Committee for Reforms in Technical Education under the chairmanship of Professor Ashok Jhunjhunwala, IIT Madras, has been constituted by the Ministry of Human Resources and Development (MHRD) with a mandate to bring about comprehensive reforms in technical education.

Quality Enhancement in Engineering Education (QEEE) Program is sponsored by MHRD, Govt. of India through IIT Madras. Shri Vishnu Engineering College for Women is selected to participate in the QEEE Pilot program in the first phase of 96 Colleges/Universities across India.

Modules

QEEE is Direct to Student interactive program with an aim to integrate superior external scholastic inputs into current learning and pedagogical practices. The program consists of five modules planned to be delivered through an educational platform (software/hardware) developed for this purpose. These modules are:

Live Lectures: Live classes are Direct to Student interactive program with the teacher. Students are to attend these live classes as the lectures are being delivered by the IIT professors who have been rated best continuously for three years by the IIT students. These Live lectures will create an environment of classroom.

Tutorials:Enable tutorials by IIT Faculty, supervised by local instructors, provide more engaging experience to students via Live Chat/Video/White board

Virtual Labs: Labs in virtual environment to provide practical learning experience to students and run locally at institutes at designated times. E-labs too will be the part of the larger plan which will also include real time online access to experiments conducted at the top five labs. The plan will also comprise of e-books and the vocational augmentation courses.

Bridge Programs:Courses for students to bridge the gaps and enhance their all round development towards employability.

The important feature of the QEEE's 'Direct to student' programme is that it will be supported by supplemental evening e-tutorials by the senior students and industry experts in the study circle setting. Subsequently 90 minute of these e-tutorials will be kicked off initially.

As part of the QEEE Live classes, the Live Lecture Series for the Engineering students has started on 27.01.2013. The live lectures will cover 12 courses covering the courses related to ECE, EEE, CSE, IT, Mechanical and Civil. Each course will be taught for 15 hours. These classes are schedules from 8:00 AM to 1:00 PM.